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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Jeremiah 1:1, 2

Intro: It's difficult to conceive a situation more painful. A Great man condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country. The words of Jehovah to a decadent age. A wonderful thought having been spoken and disobeyed. God should continue to speak.

I. THE NATURE OF THE AGE.

>A. 5 kings during Jeremiah's prophesies.

1. Josiah - 18 years after Jeremiah started.

2. Jehoahaz - 3 months.

3. Jehoiakim - 11 years.

4. Jehoiachin - 3 months.

5. Zedakiah - 11 years.

B. Josiah came to the throne at a remarkable time.

1. 8 yrs. old.

2. 1/2 century back reign of Hezekiah (Isaiah...)

a. Manassah - corruption.

b. Aaron.

c. Josiah.

C. Josiah instituted reforms.

1. Popular king and people followed.

2. Surface experienced.

3. Then Jehoahaz - vassal of Egypt then Babylon.

4. Zedekiah - moral corruption, intrigue, religious darkness.

5. During this time Jeremiah uttered the word of the Lord - mocked, imprisoned, scoffed.

D. Three great events.

1. Battle at Carchemish against Egypt - Josiah killed.

2. Battle at Corchemish - Egypt defeated by Babylon.

3. Fall of Jerusalem to Babylon.

II. WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE TO WHOM THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME?

A. Paul in Romans - what advantage has the Jew?

Adoption, covenants, glory, law, service, promises, Fathers, Christ.

B. These are the people moving toward their doom.

1. Chapter 2 - My people have committed two evils.

a. Forsaken the fountain of living waters.

b. Hewn broken cisterns that can hold no water.

2. Forsaken one - Basic sin from which others sprang.

3. Darkest period of any history.

4. Northern kingdom as example - barren land testifying to the result of forsaking God.

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